>>21
Homosexuality was considered a disease because almost every sexual kink that involved anything but the missionary position was considered a psychological disease. A disease is considered harmful; where as a disorder, as it is now, is simply different. It was made that way from changes in the concepts of pschology, and because the term "disease" implies "needs to be cured" and "can be cured" which isn't true with psychological diseases.
Sexual abnormalities have been in no way proven to harm society. Hell, even pedophilia lacks evidence of causing harm to society. This is because of lack of sufficient cross referencing comparing of other environments, and the fact that being something that causes you to be austricised the the rest of socity can be more harmful to you that just being that in the first place. Also, researh is extreemly biased for finding harm. For instance before you can tell if a homosexual is truely harmed by his/her homosexuality, you must first make sure he/she knows that he is a dirty, sick, freak and that a homosexual is a horrible thing to be. This will cause more harm to him/her than being a homosexual in the first place.
>>22
Homosexuality is still seen as a mental disorder by those that practice psychology. A disorder just means that your mind works a little different from how a human mind naturally functions, and is in no way a danger to society like a disease is. And homosexuality is a disorder and an unnatural functioning of the brain. Most sexual fetishes were moved to this area and I believe that even pedophilia is considered a disorder today, not a disease. All a fetish is is a sexual kick that doesn't have to do with breeding for the most part(not the actual definition here). focus on other non-sexual areas of the body, anal fixations, oral fixations, beastiality, necrophilia, parential inprinting, pedophilia, sadism, masochism, and homosexuality are all considered sexual disorders. A disorder isn't really good or bad but just a deviation from the normal psychological behavior.